Manifest caching is one of the lovely new features of HTML5. It allows you to define a list of files to be cached for off-line access (among other nice features). One of the points to consider when making changes to cached files, is that the browser won’t know to download…
Thanks to this post on Think Vitamin, I’ve today discovered Rapportive. Rapportive is a browser plugin for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Mailplane, which displays social network information for your mail contacts. That in itself is alright, but the juicy part is the API. You can write your own “raplets” to…
The Internet is awesome, no doubt, but it can be a challenge to keep track of all the information that’s flapping about these days. I’ve tried various techniques and technologies to help me manage the various streams of information that I like to keep an eye on. I thought I’d…
Google have launched a handy tool for building Android Apps without requiring any programming knowledge. It’s called App Inventor and is built upon the Open Blocks platform. With it you can create mobile apps simply by dragging and dropping program ‘blocks’ in to place, similar to Lego Mindstorms. The video…
The recent release of WordPress 3.0 has prompted my to go for an overhaul of this site, making use of some of the jazzy new features in this latest version. Custom Post Types The introduction of custom post types is a feature that many WP users have been waiting for…
When I was writing a WordPress widget plugin to display information from a sub set of my posts (that’s it on the side, with the paper toys…) I noticed that the WordPress Loop doesn’t quite behave itself when widgetized in the 2.8+ style. When using the following code, inside a…
After the recent release of WordPress 3.0, I’ve decided to redesign my site taking in to account some of the fantastic new features it has to offer (more on that in a future post). But while I was hunting around for bits and bobs I found out about the marvellous…
These incredible images have been captured by a brain acanning technique called DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging). Essentially DTI uses an MRI scan to track the flow of water in nerve cells, these images here show the white matter connecting the grey matter in a schitzophrenic’s brain. Link to Paper Also…